Efficient rare-event simulation for the maximum of heavy-tailed random walks
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change-of-measureheavy-tailsLyapunov boundsrandom walksrare-event simulationsingle-server queuestate-dependent importance sampling
Sums of independent random variables; random walks (60G50) Extreme value theory; extremal stochastic processes (60G70) Discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (60J05) Applications of Markov chains and discrete-time Markov processes on general state spaces (social mobility, learning theory, industrial processes, etc.) (60J20) Analysis of algorithms (68W40)
Abstract: Let be a sequence of i.i.d. r.v.'s with negative mean. Set and define . We propose an importance sampling algorithm to estimate the tail of that is strongly efficient for both light and heavy-tailed increment distributions. Moreover, in the case of heavy-tailed increments and under additional technical assumptions, our estimator can be shown to have asymptotically vanishing relative variance in the sense that its coefficient of variation vanishes as the tail parameter increases. A key feature of our algorithm is that it is state-dependent. In the presence of light tails, our procedure leads to Siegmund's (1979) algorithm. The rigorous analysis of efficiency requires new Lyapunov-type inequalities that can be useful in the study of more general importance sampling algorithms.
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